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BREAKING - FOX NEWS Television reporting oil gusher might still be going 6 months from now. August is best case scenario.
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Keep in mind that a relief well has never been dug at this depth so one must put the chances of this being the solution into perspective. [ link to www.nola.com] But relief wells are something that, fortunately, engineers don't have to do very often. Drilling the relief well also can be fraught with challenges -- especially working in deep water on a well that has already had problems with gas bubbles.
"You have to hit something the size of a dinner plate miles into the earth, " said Richard Charter, a senior policy adviser at the nonprofit Defenders of Wildlife, who follows spills around the world. "Even in a shallow-water blowout, the drilling of a relief well can be complicated and problematic."
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